Former Liverpool Ladies supervisor Matt Beard has died on the age of 47.
Beard first joined Liverpool Ladies in 2012 and helped information the membership to back-to-back Ladies’s Tremendous League titles in 2013 and 2014, and oversaw the membership throughout its first ever Champions League marketing campaign.
He left in 2015 for the USA and later rejoined the membership in 2021. On the first time of asking, he took Liverpool again to the topflight by emphatically ending first within the Championship.
Beard was instrumental in Liverpool re-establishing themselves within the topflight and solely left the membership in February.
Liverpool introduced the devastating information of his passing on Saturday night, saying in a press release:
Liverpool Soccer Membership is deeply shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of former LFC Ladies supervisor Matt Beard.
The ideas of everybody on the membership are with Matt’s household and buddies at this devastating time.
Matt was not solely a particularly dedicated and profitable supervisor, he was additionally an individual of actual integrity and heat, who will at all times be remembered with real fondness by everybody he labored with on the membership.
In addition to taking cost of Liverpool, Beard additionally led the Boston Breakers within the US, West Ham United Ladies, Bristol Metropolis Ladies and most just lately Burnley Ladies.
Beard championed girls’s soccer and performed a big position in its development, not solely with Liverpool however throughout two completely different continents.
Relaxation in peace, Matt. You’ll By no means Stroll Alone.
